US Goverment Employees Targetted By New 'GovRAT' Malware (computerworld.com) 30
Security researchers have detected an upgrade to the GoVRAT malware, which targets government employees and bypasses antivirus tools using stolen digital certificates. An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld:
Through GovRAT, hackers can potentially steal files from a victim's computer, remotely execute commands, or upload other malware to the system... The malware features an additional function to secretly monitor network traffic over the victim's computer -- something with scary consequences. "If you're downloading something from a particular resource, the hackers can intercept the download and replace it with malware," said InfoArmor CIO Andrew Komarov on Friday.
Last year, InfoArmor said that earlier versions of GovRAT had attacked more than 15 governments around the world, in addition to seven financial institutions and over 100 corporations. The security researchers say GovRAT comes with "a stolen database of 33,000 Internet accounts, some of which belong to U.S. government employees," including names, email addresses and hashed passwords.
Last year, InfoArmor said that earlier versions of GovRAT had attacked more than 15 governments around the world, in addition to seven financial institutions and over 100 corporations. The security researchers say GovRAT comes with "a stolen database of 33,000 Internet accounts, some of which belong to U.S. government employees," including names, email addresses and hashed passwords.
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Yeah, thank Snowden for that.
Clinton is a part of the problem though, not part of the solution.
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'Yep, hang him up high. Fuck that traitorous shithead.'
This comment says more about the writer than about Snowden.
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Wrong, faggot. The U.S. government revoked his passport, so he cannot leave.
Much easier to turn him into a RUSSIAN BOOGIEMAN when you make him stranded there, isn't it?
https://www.rt.com/usa/162144-... [rt.com]
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That's Trump doing the tube-steak boogie
Karma... (Score:1)
Karma is a bitch, eh....
Targetted (Score:1)
Good job mods.
Sure would be nice if we had a TLA to protect us (Score:4, Insightful)
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Because the NSA wants to use GovRAT themselves!
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The huge hope is that someone interesting will look for a project or name on a gov network and expose the real origins of such hidden information.
What really happened is the plain text US networks are left so wide open that anyone can log in and look around, save all data found in bulk, plain text or test malware on a huge scale. Why risk a live search and real time detection, jus
GoVRAT malware only targets Microsoft Windows .. (Score:3)
Slashdot is getting as bad as the rest of the technical press. As in choking on the words Microsoft Windows in relation to malware. If the NSA hadn't expended so much effort in diluting security on Microsoft Windows then we wouldn't be in this mess.